'Descendant of the Sun' actor Song Joong-ki draws 4,000 in fan meeting

Actor Song Joong-ki, who became a household name through his recently-finished drama series 'The Descendants of the Sun,' drew some 4,000 fans in his first fan meeting held in about three years on Sunday.

The concert hall inside Kyunghee University in eastern Seoul was packed with fans as Song took the stage for the event named "Song Joong-ki's fifth fan meeting: the day we met again" earlier in the day.

It was the actor's first reunion with his fans since his previous fan meeting held in August 2013, right before he served his mandatory two-year military service.

Tickets for the Sunday fan meeting were sold out instantly after ticket sales went online on March 31. The tickets, originally priced at some US$20, were later circulated in the black market at far higher prices.

Fans who couldn't get the tickets went online, grieving their lost opportunities and calling for video records of the fan meeting.

"I have been down all this week because I couldn't get a ticket. I am so envious of those who did that I am almost crying,"

one fan, whose ID starts with "haes," said in the same manner of military speech that Song used in the drama.

This local fan meeting is the beginning of Song's multiple-nation fan-meeting tours in Asia which includes one in Bangkok on May 7.

With a love story between Army Capt. Yoo Si-jin played by Song and a female volunteer doctor played by Song Hye-kyo, the KBS 2TV series was a mega hit in and outside of South Korea after concluding with a 38.8-percent viewership here last week. (Yonhap)